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| author | Yegappan Lakshmanan <yegappan@yahoo.com> | 2024-02-12 20:21:26 +0100 |
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| committer | Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org> | 2024-02-12 20:24:56 +0100 |
| commit | a0010a186d93187d2b69b857d75db8a1e01049bb (patch) | |
| tree | 5ec733566b066d5d053a38fe2117ac5bad68e6ad /runtime/doc/builtin.txt | |
| parent | 6d91227267a5f7e21fc9b30443687618e92751bf (diff) | |
patch 9.1.0099: Not able to use diff() with 'diffexpr'v9.1.0099
Problem: Not able to use diff() with 'diffexpr'
(rickhowe, after v9.1.0096)
Solution: Use a default context length of 0, update diff() help text,
add a test for using diff() with 'diffexpr'
(Yegappan Lakshmanan)
closes: #14013
Signed-off-by: Yegappan Lakshmanan <yegappan@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'runtime/doc/builtin.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | runtime/doc/builtin.txt | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/runtime/doc/builtin.txt b/runtime/doc/builtin.txt index 0dca4679e9..0b3d59e966 100644 --- a/runtime/doc/builtin.txt +++ b/runtime/doc/builtin.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -*builtin.txt* For Vim version 9.1. Last change: 2024 Feb 11 +*builtin.txt* For Vim version 9.1. Last change: 2024 Feb 12 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar @@ -2078,8 +2078,7 @@ diff({fromlist}, {tolist} [, {options}]) *diff()* use. Supported boolean items are "myers", "minimal", "patience" and "histogram". - context unified diff context length. Default - is 1. + context diff context length. Default is 0. iblank ignore changes where lines are all blank. icase ignore changes in case of text. @@ -2092,6 +2091,10 @@ diff({fromlist}, {tolist} [, {options}]) *diff()* line. For more information about these options, refer to 'diffopt'. + To compute the unified diff, all the items in {fromlist} are + concatenated into a string using a newline separator and the + same for {tolist}. The unified diff output uses line numbers. + Returns an empty List or String if {fromlist} and {tolist} are identical. |